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Brown, Daniel J. – School Administrator, 1995
Individuals interested in derailing school-based management lurk in most school communities. Some stakeholders are against true decentralization and can play their cards to subvert the process. Illegitimate intransigence can arise at the exploration or commitment stages. A sidebar shows how to defend against sabotage by making critical choices…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Change Strategies, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education
Mitchell, James E. – School Administrator, 1990
To implement shared decision-making, a Colorado school district needed three years to venture through the cage door, scare the cat away, and experience an increase in involvement from district constituents. Blocking can occur because of outdated policies reflecting centralized control, perceptions of the principal as prime manipulator, master…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decentralization, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Trubowitz, Sidney – School Administrator, 1995
An SBM team chairman of a middle school-college collaboration explains ongoing problems, including teachers' discomfort with student and parent participation, teacher-administrator power struggles, the push for immediate results, and communication issues. Despite setbacks, the group has some tangible outcomes: improved safety procedures, a…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades, Meetings
Kentta, Bill – School Administrator, 1997
Each Oregon school is required to have a council responsible for developing a staff development plan, improving the instructional program, and coordinating school-reform efforts. During the Eugene district's implementation phase, central-office administrators played a key role in providing organizational development training and in allocating…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Program Implementation
McBeath, Angus B. – School Administrator, 2001
In 1995-96, the Edmonton (Alberta) Public Schools' enterprising superintendent allocated most of the district's central-services funds (about $20 million) to schools. Schools may purchase services and products from the district or outside vendors and commit any amount on building-level program expenditures. Central cost-recovery strategies are…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Budgets, Decentralization
Parsley, James F. – School Administrator, 1991
Besides reorganizing the central office to support instructional goals, the Vancouver (Washington) School District has passed bond and levy issues to revitalize the infrastructure, changed to a three-year middle school configuration, designed three new school facilities, and allocated $1 million for school improvement initiatives. The goals are…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Decentralization, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
